{"id":4817,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/allen-hoist\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"allen-hoist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4817","title":{"rendered":"Allen Hoist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Allen Hoist\" height=\"140\" hspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/JustBeforeSpring.jpg\" vspace=\"2\"\/><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Just Before Spring<br \/><\/font>  <font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"4\">Allen Hoist<br \/><\/font>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\">(Arco &#8211; 2001)<br \/> by Carmen Miller<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The thing that struck me most was the <i>energy<\/i> in this mixture of latin and modern jazz, with a good measure of <i>a capella<\/i> and <i>scat <\/i>vocals thrown in the mix. At first hear, the vocals on the uptempo version of Stevie Wonder&#8217;s <i>All I Do<\/i> were pretty standard, but by the end of the song I was bopping right along with the vocal harmonies. The title track <i>Just Before Spring<\/i> is primarily a capella, with some horn and piano lines along the way for accent. It is reminiscent of the old <i>Persuasions<\/i> and a joyous song. <i>Rue Manin<\/i> is a sultry sax piece that belongs in a Paris cafe after dark, just where Allen probably came up with it.   <\/p>\n<p>  Then it&#8217;s back to the a capalla and percussions with a smooth rendition of the Ellington classic <i>Caravan<\/i>. Hoist&#8217;s vocals are a little rough here, but he carries it off by delivering an excellent and long) scat session. <i>One For The Road<\/i> features some nice bass work by Et\u00ecenne Mbapp\u00ea and keyboards from Mario Canonage, as well as Hoist&#8217;s unique vocals. Hoist wrote or co-wrote all but two of the songs on the CD, and he re-arranged the other two to suit his vocal and musical style. In the future I&#8217;d like to see Hoist spread the vocal duties around with a Kurt Elling type to get more out of some of his songs, but all in all this is a solid, enjoyable release from a previously unknown artist (to me at least).   <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\"><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>  <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Before Spring Allen Hoist (Arco &#8211; 2001) by Carmen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}